Intro by Sampson Hollander. At long last here is our episode on PTA's new film One Battle After Another, featuring special guest Ben Lobel! We begin the conversation talking about our first impressions of the film, and react to the unanimous praise it's getting so far. 52 minutes 16 seconds: Ben describes the rivalry between his high school's show choir and Chase Infiniti's high school in Indiana. 56 minutes 2 seconds: "My buddy texted me today and said 'I'm reading the Wiki for Judge Holden, this guy's kind of fucked up.' " 59 minutes 8 seconds: "You wanna hear a story I heard about Pynchon?" 1 hour 3 minutes 12 seconds: direct quote from Vineland. 1 hour 4 minutes 11 seconds: the password Leo's character Bob can't remember. 1 hour 17 minutes 47 seconds: J. Edgar Hoover assassinating MLK Jr. and infiltrating peace movement. 1 hour 28 minutes 34 seconds: we begin talking about the ending scenes of the movie. 1 hour 32 minutes 54 seconds: Sean Penn's last scenes are discussed. 1 hour 34 minutes 31 seconds: Jim Downey's cameo is brought up. 1 hour 36 minutes 15 seconds: Epstein's birthday book and the power elite who run society are mentioned. 1 hour 38 minutes 19 seconds: "all the people who are in the Christmas Adventurers Club would probably like Netanyahu." 1 hour 39 minutes 55 seconds: "Quick question for the group, do we think Mike Johnson the Speaker of the House is in the Christmas Adventurers Club?" 1 hour 41 minutes 32 seconds: on Sean Penn's performance. 1 hour 45 minutes 17 seconds: Sean Penn's performance being similar to George C. Scott from Dr. Strangelove. 1 hour 54 minutes 29 seconds: "Do you think Epstein and Ghislaine killed Stanley Kubrick?" 1 hour 56 minutes 5 seconds: Kubrick faked Moon landing debunked. 1 hour 56 minutes 49 seconds: Zach's unhinged Moon landing opinions. 2 hours 0 minutes 26 seconds: "the footage looks fake to me, Kubrick would have done a better job." 2 hours 1 minute 33 seconds: "Dude PTA would have done a better job faking the Moon landing." 2 hours 6 minutes 40 seconds: "You're one dangerous hombre." 2 hours 8 minutes 51 seconds: Ben explains how the guy who played Billygoat did the score for the Safdie brothers movie Heaven Knows What. That this guy is a professor of philosophy at Yale.